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October 1, 2007
the production of true art
Art begins when a man, with the purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
There are many conditions necessary for a man to create a true object of art. It is necessary that the man stand on the level of the highest world outlook of his time, that he has experienced a feeling and has the wish and opportunity to transmit it, and that he has, with all that, a talent for some kind of art. It is very seldom that all these conditions necessary for the production of true art comes together.
Tolstoy - What Is Art?
Posted by amin at October 1, 2007 10:26 AM